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Tag Archives: Childhood Obesity
Food Isn’t Fixed. But We Are Fixing It Now.
2015. It’s hard to believe we’ve marked fifteen years in the new millennium. “2015” feels like that emblematic far-off year in a fantastical ‘80s movie. In that version of now, cars flew (or drove themselves?), eyeglasses displayed our email (oh … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Behavior Change, Childhood Obesity, CircleUp, Eating, Edible Education, Entomophagy, Farms, Fast food, Food hardware, Food investors, In the news, Kickstarter, Local Food Lab, Making food, Obesity epidemic, Online groceries, Start-up profile, Weight of the Nation
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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…Steal Their Playbook
“We are simply not winning the war. And it is a war.” Todd Putman, a former chief of marketing for Coca Cola North America, minced no words as he strolled across the stage at the 2014 Childhood Obesity Bay Area … Continue reading
Flipping the Pyramid: “Cereal Killers” and the Scourge of Sugar
On January 29, 2014, I was privileged to view a screening of Donal O’Neill’s new hour-long documentary, “Cereal Killers.” The Kickstarter-backed film follows O’Neill (producer and protagonist) through Cape Town as he embarks on a medically-supervised departure from the routine … Continue reading
Rethinking the obesity paradigm (part 1)
This is the first part of a post I’ve been meaning to write for many months now, ever since the second annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area (COBA) Conference, held in February (I know, an embarrassingly long time ago – blame … Continue reading
Eco Top Chef: Engaging Middle Schoolers in the Food System
I had the pleasure this weekend of attending the Eco Top Chef Marin final competition: the culmination of two months of food and cooking education for groups of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders from seven middle schools across Marin County. … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood Obesity, Eco Top Chef, Event recap, School lunch, Teens Turning Green
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The Weight of the Nation: what the experts say
I haven’t had time to watch this highly-anticipated HBO mini-series yet but I have enjoyed reading the reactions of my favorite bloggers. I’ve listed them all below if you want to check them out. Consensus is that the series brings … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood Obesity, HBO, Obesity epidemic, Weight of the Nation
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Nest Collective: Innovation in Consumer Packaged Goods
Today I had the pleasure of meeting Neil Grimmer, the Co-Founder and CEO of The Nest Collective: “the next generation consumer packaged goods company.” Neil spoke at the GSB this afternoon and I was also lucky enough to spend 30 … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood Obesity, Design, Event, Event recap, Making food, Start-up profile
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Getting kids to love veggies: Design Interventions in the Stanford dining halls
Venue: Stanford Dining Halls Target audience: Freshman Theory of change: Love is missing from the freshman dining experience. If you can redesign the dining hall to communicate love via the vegetarian dishes, you will shift consumption away from meat. For … Continue reading
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Tagged Childhood Obesity, d.school, Design, ES180B, Final project
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Getting kids to love veggies: Project Intro
So, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m taking this awesome class in the undergraduate Earth Systems department at Stanford called Practices and Principles of Sustainable Agriculture. Our final project is incredibly broad and is supposed to reflect our own personal interests … Continue reading
Edible Education 101: Alice Waters on “What is an Edible Education?”
I don’t think I could have been more delighted and inspired by this evening’s Edible Education 101 lecture. Watching Alice Waters paint a vision of a future in which kids live in a world of good food is the perfect … Continue reading
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